An ex-government employee who was caught with footage of the Christchurch mosque shootings has had a sex-tape charge against him dropped.
The defendant, whose name and occupation remain suppressed, appeared in the Dunedin District Court yesterday.
Prosecutor Sarah McKenzie said the Crown would offer no evidence on a count of making an intimate visual recording, which allegedly took place in 2022, and Judge David Robinson duly dismissed the charge.
Counsel Anne Stevens, KC, indicated there would be an application for costs made by the defendant.
In August, the defendant was found guilty of possessing an objectionable publication following a judge-alone trial.
Court documents said the man had three videos of "a livestream of the murder of multiple victims at the Deans Avenue [Al Noor] mosque".
The defendant will appear in court on other matters in February.
